According to an article in The College Fix
80% (of Gen Z college students) said their parents have communicated with their manager at least once
Over 50% of college-age job seekers had their parents sit with them at an in-person interview, a January survey by Resume Templates found. What’s more, over 35% of surveyed individuals reported parents either writing a cover letter or performing a test assignment for them.
The survey polled young adults ages 18-23. Parental involvement in this survey was defined as “the actions a parent took for their child during the job search process.”
The young adults surveyed reported parental involvement was often repeated. They also said parents submitted applications (64%), completed test assignments (51%), and sat in on in-person interviews (51%).
Additionally, 80% said their parents have communicated with their manager at least once, including 67% who reported multiple instances. During these interactions, the most common topic was their schedule or hours (58%), and the second most common was workplace accommodations (38%).
So? My 18 year old daughter, a college freshman, and her mother, regularly talk to her manager - because she doesn't like to drive, and my wife needs to know her schedule. It's either that, or she gets off at 11 and drives home 30 minutes by herself. Are you saying that we shouldn't look out for our daughter? It's not the eye-grabbing headline that you make it out to be...
ReplyDelete"...we shouldn't look out for our daughter?"
DeleteI quoted the article and did not make any comments.
Every kid is different and the same 18 year-olds is different than the same kid as a 21 year-olds.
So, based on that testimony, let’s append to the excerpt, “67% of Gen Z workers indicated they had mommy and daddy drive at least an hour round trip because they did not lie to drive.”
DeleteHaving to drive individually could destroy the economics of working. Having car-pooled during my professional life (188 miles round-trip), I can understand the trade-off between communication intensity and decoupling of mom-daughter schedules.
DeleteThe daughter COULD step-up and explain the struggles with transportation and ask for "stable scheduling". If she has proven to be an asset in the work-force, the manager might accommodate her. Better to have her for 3.5 hours than for no hours every day.
In Texas a 90 mile commute is average.
DeleteAt 17 the youngest was getting a taste of that by making a 20 mile drive each way to HS.
But she had parents that didn't coddle her.
DeleteFair enough ERJ, were Anonymous’s rationale economics and the reasons offered by the snowflakes and their parents related to the economics of working. But Anonymous’s apparent solution of having a parent drive a 1 hour round trip twice every day the daughter works blows that explanation up. Now we have 2 hours of drive time for a single person who doesn’t like to drive, assuming Mom doesn’t sit in the parking lot the whole shift. I would do anything for my 17 yr old daughter too and she has to drive 30mins each way to attend early college as a high school junior. I would be doing her no favors by sheltering her from learning how to cope with all of the Florida maniacs on the road.
18, in college, still fully dependent on mommy and daddy? Can't figure how to find a job not dependent on mommy and daddy? Do you do her homework for her also? I hope she's successful in marriage; she'll need a husband that marries her parents as well. If I were the manager, I'd let her go as not dependable. I wouldn't waste my time talking to my employee's parents.
DeleteYou are not looking out for your daughter you are turning her into a worthless invalid. You FAIL as a parent, people like you ARE the problem in this country, GO FUCK YOURSELF
DeleteThe phrase "helicopter parenting" comes to mind.......
ReplyDeleteWill these people (of both generations) ever cut the apron strings?
More proof we aren't going to make it...as a society and possibly as a species.
ReplyDeleteJust a foreign concept. I left home at 18 and never looked back. To each their own.
ReplyDeleteFirst job at 13, worked every year till 68. Would not hire anyone who would come in with a parent in tow.
DeleteThat, to me is just nuts.
ReplyDeleteParents have roughly 18 years to do their job, you KNOW that when the kid is born. If the kid needs that kind of help the parents didn't do their ONE job of getting the kid(s) ready for life.
Sad.
Just found this blog, and am liking it. For as long as I can remember (am now in my 70's) my parents had a small business, a bowling alley. So was working behind the counter a lot earlier then probably should have been but without pay when starting. Learned alot from my parents. But to have taken my parents, or a parent, to a job or school interview? WHAT!!! My first job interview was with the IRS and I got the job. Plus still worked at the family business on off time. I am tail end of the Boomers, but do admire Gen X. Majority of kids today are just so looney, but as I also still work part time in another mom & pop business and seeing the kids there and the kids where I volunteer with a 4-H group I see some kids who give me hope for the future of this country and world.
ReplyDeleteOh and where do all the kids get their "not taking responsibility"? Check out the parents who grew up on Indiana Jones, and Star Wars. One of the featured characters was always saying how the problems they got into was "Not My Fault"! So these were the parents who raised todays kids.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to sound too callus, but I doubt I would even consider hiring someone who brought mommy or daddy to a job interview.
ReplyDeletePossibly if the said they needed the ride, but the next question would be how they planned to get to work every day?
This appears to be students in college, but it refers to full time jobs. Also, I didn't see clear information on when and where this study was done (or how many were surveyed).
ReplyDeleteFor a summer job that is their first foray outside of school, I can see a parent coming along (in fact, I HAVE seen it as a fast food customer).
My first summer job was arranged by dad and I rode with him, but then he worked there and I didn't work with him.
I agree with the others - bringing a parent to a full time professional job interview would be a red flag to me as a hiring official.
Jonathan
Lol, im not even that old, young end gen x. I do get to hire people as part of my job. Anyone who brings their parents with them or has them contact us as part of the hiring process will NOT be hired.
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